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Organic Certification

Willie Lantz (2016)

Summary

For thousands of years, food has been produced utilizing naturally occurring minerals and organic nutrients. Historic discoveries from ancient Rome, to Egypt, to Mexico illustrate that the process of growing food crops heavily relied upon the use of manure and composted plant vegetation. Early American farms grew a wide variety of products due to the fact that it was necessary to grow a variety of foods year-round to utilize composted animal manures and plant materials for crop nutrients.